Elderly Advice

In the vein of Ann Landers and Dear Prudence, a group of individuals have started their own advice column. The only difference is that The Elder Wisdom Circle is comprised of seniors with Internet access.

Review of Hooters

So the food critic of the New York Times recently started a blog where he posts some of the stuff that don't make it into his weekly column. Today, he has just posted a review of the Hooters in New York, which I thought was pretty funny coming from an established restaurant reviewer. Guess that didn't make it into the paper.

Steak On The Menu

Confused about how to buy steak from the grocery store? Here's a run-down of the do's and dont's when buying steak

Jordan's Comeback #2

An old 2002 Washington Post story about Jordan's comeback and a behind the scenes look at his dominating atitude.

Sticky LEDs

A tutorial to make fun, throwaway, magnetic LED lights that last for about a week or two.

Syrup or Water?

It is apparently just as easy to swim through syrup as it is through water. More interesting and applicable research brought to you by scientists.

Best Songs Not Always Popular

Scientists have discovered that the most popular songs are not necessarily the best songs in terms of quality, infact the success of songs is due to whether the songs are popular or not. Not surprisingly since no one has enough time to go through that much music.

Faster Downloads

If you want faster downloads, you may want to take a look at the SNAP protocol. It is much faster than the carrier pigeon one that Google proposed, and is not very expensive.

Random Numbers

I personally have never noticed this, and perhaps it's not in Canadian stores (although ALL Best Buy stores are laid out in the same manner) but there are random numbers at every Best Buy store which are like statistics of how they've been doing on some actually pretty random things.

Cellphones Generate Heat

Perhaps those radiation stickers that they sell at Chinese places are useful, because some aspiring tech geeks have posted a recipe to boil an egg with cellphones onto the Internet.